let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> republicans have talked a lot about losing minorities in 2012. but they may have a bigger problem, folks. they may be losing the political middle. today a deep dive into our patchwork nation. a look at how president obama and mitt romney fared in various parts of the country. of course the patchwork nation project breaks the u.s. into 12 types of communities. go to my trusty board here. remind you, boom towns, military, money, evangelical epicenters, mormon outposts, immigration nations, service worker centers, industrial metropolitan and tractor countries. going into the election, this is what we were telling you. mitt romney needed to do this well in the typical gop strongholds. evangelical centers, tractor country, mormon, look at this. he did out perform bush in all of these areas. all of these areas. he increased bush's margins or stayed the same in the key republican areas. and if you look